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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rock_nj who wrote (3258)	10/3/2003 12:09:06 AM
From: Don Earl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

<<<It's nice to hear people from officialdom come out and say we attacked Iraq for oil.>>> Not quite. The article is a rather sneaky piece of propaganda. By now most folks should be able to figure out it's about oil. There are no WMDs. No one has found any WMDs. The "evidence" for WMDs has been widely publicized as bogus. The Iraqis are in 10 times worse shape than they were before they were "liberated". Iraq has no ties to al Qaida. So, yes, anyone with half a brain should be able to pick up on the idea there was oil involved simply by the process of elimination. What you posted is the obvious second phase of the propaganda machine. Instead of trying to appeal to some sort of higher moral cause, this phase is designed to appeal to the lowest variety of immoral values. You start by quoting a study that has no credible basis whatsoever. It's pure FUD with no other purpose than to frighten people into believing that without murder, treason and armed robbery, their gas tanks would be empty in 7 years. The whole thing is as bogus as uranium from Niger. The message the article attempts to get across is that immoral acts may be justified under certain circumstances. It's all okay because the "Dr." explained it so it makes sense, and the average person discounts the disclosure in the article that the numbers don't agree in any way, shape or form with studies done by more professional sources. Also, since the average person goes blank once they reach figures higher than they have fingers, the fact that even the absurdly low reserve figure, quoted in the bogus study, represents 20 times more oil than what could be used in 7 years, gets swallowed whole without giving it any real thought. The truth is if we really needed Iraqi oil, it could have been instantly made available by lifting the sanctions and returning it to the open market. The trick to good propaganda is if you take the one piece of truth as bait, the big lie goes down easy without a fight.